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Are you allowed to lead a trick with the race card if race hasn’t been broken?
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December 2008
New information has come to light
Press conferences and appearances yesterday have made it clear that the correct question is actually, “Who is the bigger asshole: Roland Burris or Rod Blagojevich?”
Bobby Rush is not an option because he’s in a league of his own.
Who’s Dumber?
Roland Burris accepted a Senate appointment from a heavily tainted governor. He did so with transactions on the books that tie him to said governor, and regardless of how innocent they may be, they’re suspicious by default thanks to taint by association.
On the other hand, Rod Blagojevich is pretty dumb. Like, as a box of [...]
Webb Spends His Capital Wisely
A week or so ago I mentioned that I pay attention to where politicians are willing to spend political capital, not just what their stated policy positions are. By this metric, Jim Webb just jumped a ton of positions in the Senatorial Badass Rankings. To take a pro-prison-reform stance that can be caricatured easily by [...]
Republicans Making Sense?
In an op-ed for the NYT on Sunday, Bob Inglis (R-SC) and Arthur Laffer (R-Reagan Administration) argue for a large carbon tax offset by equivalent payroll (as in Social Security) or income tax cuts. I think this is an outstanding idea, especially if done via cuts in the payroll tax. The one issue I have [...]
Deep Thought
Maybe it was the Chinese who should have been checking what we were exporting to them a bit more stringently.
Shallow Self-Serving Thought
There’s nothing good on TV on Christmas.
Write-ins and Lizard People
Part of the institution of voting is the idea that you can vote for anybody you want. Anyone at all. You can vote for yourself for every office. Nobody will blame you if you vote for Kodos. You can even vote for DraculaCunt.
Another part of the institution of voting is the secret ballot. A voter [...]
On efficient auctions
The recent news that a U. of Utah college student managed to sabotage an entire Bureau of Land Management (“NAMBLMA”) auction (1, 2) presents an opportunity to write about game theory for no particular reason.
Leaving aside for the moment the issue of whether or not it was a good idea, what Tim DeChristopher did is [...]
Deep Thought
Sarbanes-Oxley sure is working as intended, eh?
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